sPHENIX HCal discussion

[Gabor David <david AT bnl.gov>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, John Haggerty wrote:

        Yes, we (with Debrecen) also came across this paper,
and also started to discuss what and how to do.  I also talked
to Sean about it.  Ideally one would need typical lineshapes
from real particles - shape, duration, actual light vs time
- (testbeam?) - then one could sort of replicate it on our test
stand and see how serious the problem would be in real life.

        Gabor

> This is an interesting paper on saturation in SiPM's that I came across
> a while ago:
>
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01102
>
> which seems to explain why the saturation curves I've seen aren't quite
> as simple as throwing balls into boxes, which they say is because the
> pixels actually can sometimes fire twice within the time of the light
> collection.

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